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- noun linguistics A
grouping of two or morelanguage families that share some relationship
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[2] Bomhard/Kerns, The Nostratic macrofamily: A study in distant linguistic relationship (1994), p.161 (see link): Thus, in a consistent SOV language, an attributive adjective or a genitive precedes its 'head' noun, an adverb precedes its adjective or verb, a noun precedes its case ending or postposition, [...]
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They have an online article called The Nostratic linguistic macrofamily by Ilya Yakubovich of the University of California.
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They have an online article called The Nostratic linguistic macrofamily by Ilya Yakubovich of the University of California.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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1 Ilya Yakubovich from the Department of Linguistics in the University of California in Berkeley writes in her online article The Nostratic linguistic macrofamily: "According to Moscow scholars, he frequently confuses cognate words with later borrowings e.g. by trying to reconstruct Nostratic numerals."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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1 Ilya Yakubovich from the Department of Linguistics in the University of California in Berkeley writes in her online article The Nostratic linguistic macrofamily: "According to Moscow scholars, he frequently confuses cognate words with later borrowings e.g. by trying to reconstruct Nostratic numerals."
The early Illych-Svitych on Indo-European and early Semitic contacts 2008
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